Confounded in their Language. I 41 wrought by thy induifry, by thy care, by thywatchfulneffe o by thy wifdome, by thy power, they are all odious and abo- minable : Godwill as foon accept the offering up of Swines Efi. 66. 3 blood, and regard as loon the cutting offa dogs neck as anyof thefe thy duties : for, whatever is done by thee or in thee, except it be doneby the wifdome, power, and hand of Je- fits Chriti, who is the promife maker, and the promife wor- ker, and accomplifher, they cannot be in him Yea, and in him d4ten; for he alone is thepromife, that is the maker and fulfiller; he mull work it by hispower ; but as long as thou thinkeft thou canff do any thing, or hag any thing to offer, of any thing to acconzplzfh, and thou mutt do it on thy part as a condition , the Lord abhors all fuch facrtfìces as abo- minable : when thou thinkft fuch and filch rules are pre- fcribed, and I mull obey andftsbmit to every rule,not the leafl but I mull do ir, and then the promife it mine, for now I am in the right way ;and then fayft to thy foul,foul take thy eafe, this is the true place of rat, here thou may eft lye down in Luk. 12. fafety : examine thy felf, is not this thy end ? How be it all 19. this is nothing elfe but the buildingup of Babel in theLand of Shinar : All this while when thou thoughteft thou waft travelling to thy reft, thou art travelling quite contrary ; to ruine, defirutlion and confufion : thou art but travelling from the Eaft, to theplain of Shinar, a place beautiful in- deed andpleafant to the fons of men, when they had turned their backs: upon the Eaíf, and were gone out from God, Ter.2. 13. their ref, and were not content with the fountain, but fol- lowed the Streams which in the end are dryed up, and there is no water to quench thy thiríf, but onely a meer hell Luk. i6. andplace of torment, and not one drop tocool thy tongue. 24. Scondly, we may fee here that Sleepznefs is the end that Z fe. 2, all thefe builders of Babel, propound to themfelves ; they wouldhave fome reft from their doings, and from their la- bouts, and from their wifedome, and their endeavours their end in all they do is Security, that they may fleep qui. etly, that they may not fear neither death, nor hell, nor judgment, that they may cry to their foules, peace,peace,when Jer. 6.14. there is no peace ; and now they having made a covenant with E8 ' 28' G death
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